18+. Furry (red panda/fennec). Writer and musician in Athens, GA. ace. they/them - I make music and art and stories.
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Some people seem to have themselves figured out pretty quick. For the rest of us, identity is like a Matryoshka doll. Pull one layer off, and you don't seem to change much, but the process of coming to terms with it teaches you to see the crack that
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The first episode of the Battlestar Galactica reboot that followed the miniseries. In it, the Cylons find the fleet every 33 minutes, and no one knows how. It reminds me of the initial automated jump timer in Stargate Universe and I wonder if this episode was an inspiration for that.
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Some day, I want to travel the world with my camera. Until then, I curate the best of what other people shared from their travels in Drop Pod. I drop in on a spot in the world from Google Maps and explore the culture around it through blogs, photos, and
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I discovered that trying to write one big blob does not work for me. I can get as far as 2000 words before the volume overwhelms. As with many things in life, breaking it down into pieces helps a lot! This is where most outlining writers suggest a big bulleted
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I found this highly relatable. I can easily go a month without going out. And my idea of going out involves a camera and nature, far from people. I lived in a proper city for a year and a half and my favorite moments involved walking all the sidewalks almost
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"But the idea that Vice may be deleted was not an irrational worry. News websites have been disappeared before: The contents of the website Gawker were deleted after it was successfully sued by Hulk Hogan and its former parent company went bankrupt. (Fortunately, the Freedom of the Press Foundation
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Moving to focus on Bluesky was my solution to social media's fraught nature. Stackable moderation makes all the difference. Between the Aegis list, the screenshot dunk blocker, and the GIF blocker, I see almost nothing that causes undue stress. It's a huge improvement over Mastodon, which
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As someone who finished a 2 year AAS in Linux network administration in 2008 just as the economy was taking a dive and companies were rushing to replace their expensive and needy IT departments with Google's growing suite of cloud products, I empathize. At least a scholarship paid
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This is one of those classic Trek moments. The Sheliak refuse to give the colonists enough time to leave before taking the planet, so Picard engages in a clever legal maneuver. Only, the text on the screen isn't any kind of treaty. HD and 4K remasters often reveal
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Golf would be way more interesting if it were silly stuff like this.
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* Make your kraft dinner/mac and cheese/store brand knockoff like usual * Turn the heat off * Toss in some cream of mushroom and get it mixed in good * Toss in some peas * Mix in some tuna * Turn the heat on to low and stir occasionally until it's nice
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Inside Bluesky’s Engineering CultureA deep dive into how a fully remote, open source-first, tech company is building a challenger social media platform. What can small teams learn from Bluesky about punching above your weight?The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz That article details a lot of the kind of things I
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Novice musician: not knowing WTF a sample (or anything) is (why are the Romans analyzing things) Intermediate musician: spending all day on Reddit and YouTube taking in opinions on using samples, not realizing half the people on there know even less than you and are posting to avoid practicing Advanced
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Syme's near-monologue about Newspeak is one of my go-to references to see if someone's actually read 1984. 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because
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I'm putting this here so I can tap the sign any time someone tells me to get rid of Windows. Could I switch to Linux? Sure. I probably know Linux better than most people who chastise me for using Windows. I've used it in some capacity
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Some notes from a larger talk, but here's one that stood out. Science fiction is not about predicting the future, it is about looking at the concerns we have today and projecting them forward. Novels are empathy machines. You can really get into what the characters were feeling/